Posted on 10/06/2011 12:30:03 PM PDT by tcrlaf
BOSTON (CBS) – President Obama used the story of a Boston teacher to push his jobs bill Tuesday, even though the teacher has a job.
At the beginning of his White House news conference, Mister Obama told a story of how he recently met Robert Baroz of Wellesley, an English teacher in the city.
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But, Baroz is working in the Boston Public Schools this year as a middle school English teacher.
He’s employed through a U.S. Department of Education teaching fellowship.
On the D.O.E.’s web site he writes that he’s also employed part-time as an English instructor at Mass Bay Community College
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...
How many jobs do middle school teachers create?
Not many.
So, it's a classic Clintonian statement: it's technically true, because he has been getting those pink slips.
But, it's misleading, because it's designed to make you think the guy no longer has a job.
Learned from the master, Obama has.
Doesn’t matter, now that Obama has mentioned him by name he will likely be unemployed by year end.
It is really something that the President of the United States is a known and habitual liar!
At this point, it would be more of a headline story if Obama told the truth.
Fox is saying he “embellished” the truth, but down here in Georgia we don’t much care for $3 words, the feller lied! They can look down their noses at southerners but we don’t lie with vocabulary....
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